Its not our fault.

There were three pillars of the referendum:

1. Take back control of our borders

2. UK laws in UK courts

3. Restore sovereignty to Parliament.

The primary legislation literally said we always had control. Of our borders, our laws. All control. All ours.

Johnson's new plan for the Irish Border includes no checks on people at the border. None.

How is this taking back control?

And he also promised no hard boarder or infrastructure on or near the border.

Until today.

And now there will be checks at customs posts outside a buffer zone on either side of the border. But there will be no checks on vehicles and people at the border. Yet. So, criminals will be able to smuggle whatever they want.

So that is some new definition of the word "control" I was previously unaware of.

UK law always has supremacy. But hey. And then when the Supreme Courts makes a judgement, Brexiteers are like, that's a political judgement. There was even talk of an appeal to the UCJ, even though this was purely a UK constitutional matter.

The law is passed by politicians, and judged by, er, judges. If the law is wrong, blame the lawmakers.

And Parliament. Parliament passes laws requiring the PM to act a certain way, and he says he will refuse. Tis breaking the law. By the leader of the party claiming to be the party of law and order.

Parliament was always Sovereign, but now more so.

A series of pointless appeals by a Government trying to keep the Brexit process secret has only succeeded in limiting the PM's inherited Henry VIII powers. A schoolboy error is ever there was on But as Johnson has never grown up, maybe its to be expected.

Today, the reaction to Johnson's plan for the Irish Border began to come in, and its either Johnson and the Brexiteers have literally no idea how international trade works, or this was the first shot in the blame game to say, that we put out an impossible solution, and the EU turned it down, not our fault they're being unreasonable!

Your regular reminder, that the backstop is only an issue if the "alternate arrangements" don't work. So, proposing alternate arrangements as a cure for the backstop is fucking stupid. No matter how alternative the arrangements are, they won't work. Simple.

Still, get your excuses in early.